Filtering Software in Public Libraries…
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Barry and Me
I never swooned over Frank Sinatra. When Beatlemania hit the United States, I wasn’t one of the Fab Four’s screaming fans. In fact, I have written only one fan letter in my entire life, and that was five years ago, to Barry Goldwater.
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Valuing Ideas
Indianapolis seems poised for a political battle over a highly unlikely subject: the public library.
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Christians, Lions & the Bill of Rights
In a free country, citizens will always debate matters of public policy and the proper interpretation of the laws. This is as it should be; the clash of ideas and beliefs, the "marketplace of ideas" is precisely what the founders of this nation wanted to…
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Saddened But Not Surprised
Within a recent, two-day period, Indianapolis media reported on two separate, ugly incidents. In Greenwood, racist flyers were distributed on cars parked at the Greenwood Park Mall; in Carmel, anti-Semitic tracts were thrown on driveways in selected neighborhoods.
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